How to Prevent Sewing Thread Breakage
Aurora SisnerosAurora Sisneros provides helpful tips and techniques for preventing sewing thread breakage. Find out how to put moisture into your older thread by just a few household items. See how simple it is to strengthen your thread!
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I have this great canister of vintage thread that I inherited from my mom. And I was using them on a project the other day, and the thread that I was using was beautiful, but it kept breaking. So instead of throwing the thread out, I realized that, because it's been sitting in my basement and unused for so long, it's probably just really dried out. So I'm gonna show you a way that you can put a little bit of moisture in that old thread using just a few household items. So, I have a plastic bag here, and this one's just a Ziploc bag, but you can also use a bigger grocery bag if you're going to do a whole bunch of thread, like this entire canister, for example.
And you're just going to put a couple of the spools of thread into the bag, just like that. And I've just got some plain paper towels here, and a couple of them, I've just dampened and gotten them wet. So I'm gonna tuck those in with the thread as well, and I'm going to seal it up, and then I'm going to place it in my freezer. You can leave it in there for as little as a couple of hours, but it works best if you leave it in there for a few days. Then, when you take it out and use it, since it's been moisturized, it's a lot stronger, and none of these have to go in the trash.
Never knew this and will be trying this. However, when the rejuvenated thread is used on a project, will it not "dry out" again and break?
thank you for the tip my thread has been breaking and I put it off to being cheap thread, but hey now I know what to do. I also store my threads on plastic containers out of sunlight and the containers are see through
Neat trick, wish I'd know it sooner.
I was so hopeful this would work, which it did, for some of the spools, some I put in for a second time. Some spools were repaired after the 2nd time. The others I tossed. So It works for some anyway. Now I need to go through the hundreds left. ( o :
nice tip but how do you prevent mildew afterwards?
Thanks for the great idea! Do you leave your thread in the bag? or put it back into the storage & is there any problem with them going moldy? Rayon threads can be one of the hardest threads to use because of their perpensity to break and I think this may work to improve their performance - they look so cool... HUGS
What a neat idea! I have never heard this before. I am so glad that I have not thrown away some spools of thread I inherited from my Mom. Thank you!